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I need to have something happen when a user clicks anywhere inside the form. I don't know much about c# and I have tried looking it up but I just can't find an answer to this exact question.

Joel Coehoorn
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Aceramey
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  • What kind of form? Winforms? Web Forms? WPF? – Joel Coehoorn Nov 16 '18 at 22:20
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    "windows forms app" in visual studio – Aceramey Nov 16 '18 at 22:23
  • Implement the IMessageFilter interface. Thinking that this is useful is a standard "don't know much" mistake. You can't get the help you really need if you don't explain why you think you need it. – Hans Passant Nov 16 '18 at 22:34
  • it seems you want to handle a click in the form, not in any of the contained controls (buttons, textbox and so on), you just have to handle the Click event of the form. anyway, an advice: if this is actually your problem, you should start looking for tutorials on C# and winforms, before start asking on SO. Learning a language, as a start, requires something different than asking questions on sites like this – Gian Paolo Nov 16 '18 at 22:38
  • Start by reading about the following events. Give something a try, and if you get stuck come back with a more specific question (including problematic code). These events are all related to clicking on a form: `MouseClick`, `MouseDoubleClick`, `MouseDown`, and `MouseUp`. – Rufus L Nov 16 '18 at 23:07
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    This is the best answer you will find if you want to handle all click globally (ps - Google is your friend) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/804374/capturing-mouse-events-from-every-component-on-c-sharp-winform – Kevin Nov 16 '18 at 23:40
  • Also related: [Handling a Click for all controls on a Form](https://stackoverflow.com/q/247946/3744182). – dbc Nov 17 '18 at 03:18

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try this

1 --> go to form properties.

2 --> find Click event.

3 --> double Click it.

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Dhanushka Dayawansha
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There's things called events

so when the event is happen the code will work

for ex:

Click : when I 'click', the code will happen and that's what are you looking for 

private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   MessageBox.Show("hello world!");
}

All you have to do is select the event you want from the properties tab and double click on it and write the code you want

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